MMD Advokati

Marić, Mališić & Dostanić is a Serbian bar compliant and duly registered partnership, with four equity partners and a team of 11 lawyers. While each partner developed a specific expertise, the firm functions as a team ensuring a smooth transition between different legal subjects.

Marić, Mališić & Dostanić provides a unique support to its clients doing business in Serbia and the region. Its lawyers have a good understanding of the Serbian business climate and deliver the highest quality of legal services.

The firm provides a full range of legal services in all areas of business law, notably: M&A, corporate and commercial law, infrastructure projects, energy, real estate, PPP’s, privatizations, banking and finance, competition law, data protection, consumer protection, dispute resolution, employment law.

Corporate/M&A

M&A and transactions are is MMD’s core business. Whether a client is extending its present business capacities or is entering the Serbian market through an acquisition, MMD has the knowledge to ensure that the most complex mandates succeed.

MMD favors an integrated approach – creating a team of legal experts to suit the client’s specific project, covering all aspects of the transaction – from structuring of the deal, financing aspects, to smooth execution of all project phases – at the same time keeping close in mind competition, regulatory and employment aspects.

MMD advises clients in all aspects of corporate law, ranging from legal advice to future investors on how to choose the most appropriate structure for their investment in Serbia to complex corporate restructurings and advice with respect to relations between shareholders.

The firm also assures legal advice in relation to regular corporate functioning of a company; ensuring compliance of operations of companies, branches and representative offices with applicable legislation. It also treats issues related to corporate governance, including organization of corporate bodies, internal governance policies and various statutory changes.

Real estate and construction

MMD is successfully following the investment boom in Serbia over the course of the last 5 years. In increasingly competitive real estate climate, the firm covers complex real estate issues that also require regulatory, structuring, commercial, financing and litigation assistance. In this practice area, MMD is supporting its reputable clients in wide range of different businesses: consultancy and engineering, retail, hospitality and leisure, logistics.

The firm provides comprehensive legal advice throughout every phase of their real estate undertakings, from the initial research, structuring and planning to their implementation including assistance in eventual disputes. Our team is proficient in integrated legal support of the government’s subsidies and actively participated in negotiations with the authorities in some of the major real estate projects in Serbia.

Our recent practice includes: green field investments legal analysis, joint ventures setups, complex enabling works agreement, design & built agreement under the FIDIC book, various construction agreements (FIDIC included), tendering procedures and negotiations with general contractors.

Dispute resolution

MMD has one of Serbia’s strongest dispute resolution practices, with trained and experienced lawyers, offering its clients service in all types of civil, commercial and administrative litigation, before national courts as well before International Court of Arbitration (ICC Paris) and Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT Geneva).

Our well-coordinated team of professionals has handled some of the most important cases in recent years, successfully representing both foreign and national corporate clients on both sides of the litigation process.

We are duly familiar with a court practice and stances of the courts in all important fields, which sometimes can be decisive for successful closure of the case to the benefit of our clients. Most of our team members have precious work experience in courts and have secured countless successful outcomes for our clients because of our multi-disciplinary legal team.

We are very active in real estate related disputes of high value. In addition, our engagement in real estate projects as of beginning gives us possibility to monitor the project and to be familiar with all aspects of the same, which is usually positively reflected in litigation procedures as well.